The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art

On Cathode Ray Tubes, nostalgia and anachronisms.

[...] there's a lot more going on with both pixel art and old gaming hardware than mere CRT fuzziness

This repository contains the instructions for building a Faux TRS-80. The model is meant to evoke the feel of a TRS-80 Model 3 or Model 4 computer, but is not an exact replica of either. It has mounting spots for a Raspberry Pi, display, and associated hardware that allow you to run a TRS-80 emulator and get the true Tandy experience.

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New episodes on https://remotehack.space/live/

You might be good at TypeScript, but if you don’t know what this project does, what it needs to do next, how to build & run & test, and so much more–you can’t move it forward.

The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe card, which I won’t count until I get one), it can be easy to forget that in 1977, it was a video extravaganza. The competitors– even much bigger and established companies like Commodore and Tandy– generally only had text modes, let alone pixel-addressable graphics, and they certainly didn’t have sixteen colors. (Gray and grey are different colors, right?)

This looks like a neat little self-hosted RSS reader/news feed. I might give it a go, though these days I tend to start my mornings with https://brutalist.report/

https://olano.dev/blog/reclaiming-the-web-with-a-personal-reader (and a follow-up https://olano.dev/blog/from-rss-to-my-kindle )

Following up to my earlier post (https://social.omgmog.net/2023/fiddling-around-with-a-convoluted-method-of ) I've got a less convoluted method of handling switching audio output devices from a macro keypad now.

I'm now using Hammerspoon https://www.hammerspoon.org/ -- a powerful tool that lets you define all sorts of automation using Lua. This is my script for switching audio output devices: https://gist.github.com/omgmog/8c2139c9270431b7cddd93a947c9018c

I'm also now using a cheap 3-key macro pad from Aliexpress (rather than the Pimoroni RGB Keypad as I couldn't think of a good use for the rest of the keys!) that I've got bound to F12/F13/F14 keys.

This is a book about building applications using hypermedia systems. Hypermedia systems might seem like a strange phrase: how is hypermedia a system? Isn’t hypermedia just a way to link documents together?

This is great! http://axio.ms//projects/2024/06/16/MicroMac.html

Now... what would it take to fit this inside something like the little Macintosh 128k brick set I built the other week?

A novel use of font ligatures

Sans Bullshit Sans. The font that replaces every buzzword by a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar

Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.

The VR Design Paradox

Fiddling around with a convoluted method of setting up macro keys on Mac OS. I'm using the old faithful Pimoroni RGB Keypad with a Pico, some basic CircuitPython keyboard stuff, and these two nifty apps:

switchaudio-osx: CLI utility to switch audio source

icanhazshortcut: shortcut manager to bind any keyboard combo to any command

Anyway it's working nicely for me right now! So far I've got headphone/speaker output toggles and volume control sorted. Just 12 more keys to assign 🤔